| Description | Interview with H. Kennedy, a child psychologist, and Doris Wills. They discuss their work with blind children at the Anna Freud clinic, the training of psychotherapists there and the developments that led to the establishment of a nursery for blind and partially sighted children. They discuss their research into the development of blind children by observing children and talking to their parents, the importance of helping parents to empathise with their children to interpret their needs, and learning through touch and sound for very young blind children. They talk about the importance of verbalising with the child, the difficulties in getting children interested in activities, the rationale behind 'blindisms' and research into these gestures, the survival of some visual images in children who have lost their sight at an early age, the different reactions of parents towards babies born blind and those who lose their sight later in childhood and the benefits for blind children who have sighted siblings. They discuss the attitudes of society at large towards blind people and the terminology used for different objects by blind children dependent on touch (tracks 1-7).
Total: 37.14 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0356880 |